The Beautiful Krka National Park

When booking our apartment in Croatia we didn’t think about the attractions in the surrounding area as we mainly craved for great weather. On our way to Tisno we noticed street signs guiding to the Krka National Park and decided to research what it’s all about.

Being situated in the beautiful Šibenik – Knin county, it is the second most visited national park in Croatia and encloses an area of 109 square kilometers along the Krka River. As well as the lower part of Čikola river. The Krka National Park is an enormous, mostly unchanged region of exceptional and multifaceted natural value, and includes one or more preserved or insignificantly altered ecosystems.

The most comfortable way to explore the park is by car as you need to drive between the five main entrances: Skradin, Lozovac, Roški Slap, Krka Monastery and Burnum. If you are coming from Split it might take you around 1,5 hour, from Zadar 1 hour and from Šibenik 20 minutes.

In case you don’t have a car there is some options to get a bus from the cities mentioned above. There’s also a possibility of doing a day trip with one of the local tour guides.

After seeing the remote Visovac Monastery we spent the most of our time at Roški slap. An area with beautiful waterfalls, some educational hiking paths and an old mill which has been transformed into a multifunctional area for tourists. There is a traditional dalmatian restaurant called “Konoba Kristijan”. You can try dalmatian prosciutto or some other domestic meals whilst dipping your feet into a waterfall. In addition to that there is a workshop for children, a museum of local tradition and a place where you can see how processing corn traditionally looked like.

The educational hiking trails can be chosen by difficulty. We decided to take a trail around waterfalls looking like stairs and wandered into a more difficult path which led us to a pre historical cave Oziđana pećina (5000 BC to about 1500 BC). Some years ago an archaeological study revealed various artefacts showing the history of this place: stone tools, stone knives and animal bones inside the cave.

Near the cave you have the opportunity to see Roški slap from an incredibly beautiful perspective. With a view overlooking waterfalls and surrounding mountains, it is worth stopping and resting moments after an exhausting climb to the top.

only 10,000 visitors are permitted at any one time at Skradinski Buk – so be sure to secure your tickets in advance. You can use to following website to find more information: www.parkovihrvatske.hr/webshop

as some of the areas allow swimming during the summer months you should take swimming gear with you